A home for ongoing experiments, practices, dev notes, recordings, and research threads.
Latest Projects
Recent notes and updates from across the projects section.
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Beef Stroganoff
Sometimes a dish becomes a family favourite because I happened to stumble on the ingredients while looking for inspiration and an old classic is brought to mind. This is what happened with Beef Stroganoff. I used to go to a morning yoga class near an M&S Food Hall. If I hadn’t already bought stuff for…
Fatiha Practice
My exercise in learning Arabic recitation. My intention is for a daily practice. This is both a practical voice training exercise and a part of my spirtual practice.
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Fatiha Practice – 15 May
Continuing with the Lo Fi ‘listen and repeat’. Again, not distracting myself by referring to a written version while reciting. I think it improves my pronunciation, but the recording ends up choppy becasue I have the memory of a gnat and I can only hold a few syllables in my mind long enough to repeat back. No 14 May practice because life got very busy, not because of feeling discouraged.
Dr Amblyo
Development notes from my VR amblyopia training experiment.
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Notes on Visual Participation
One of the more interesting developments in the Dr Amblyo trainer over the last few sessions has not been a dramatic leap in “vision”, but a growing sense that the system is beginning to recruit my weaker eye more actively into the task itself. The recent left-eye-only cueing changes feel subtle while playing, but noticeably…
Joseph Beuys
Long reads, research notes and reflections around Beuys, social sculpture, and artistic practice.
Beuys Overview
Joseph Beuys has been a recurring presence in my intellectual life for nearly two decades. Not always in the foreground, and not always comfortably. This article introduces the role Beuysian thought plays in my current work.
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Joseph Beuys in Practice and Thought
Joseph Beuys has been a recurring presence in my intellectual life for nearly two decades. Not always in the foreground, and not always comfortably. I first encountered Beuys almost by accident while on a working holiday in London in 2002. Tate Modern was hosting a major retrospective of his work and, not knowing anything about…